The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by new minds—with no programs. - Daniel Quinn

It doesn't matter that everyone 'knows' the human race is three million years older than the cities of Mesopotamia. Every molecule of thought in our culture bears the impress of the idea that we needn't look beyond the Mesopotamian horizon in order to understand our history.

Modern humans have been around for two hundred thousand years, but according to to our beliefs, God had not a word to say to any of them until we came along.

What is observed in the human population is that intensification of production to feed and increase the population invariably leads to a still greater increase in population. I’ve seen this called a paradox, but in fact it’s only what the laws of ecology predict. Listen to it again: “Intensification of production to feed an increase the population invariably leads to a still greater increase in population.”